About

About: Green Gazette SA, origin, values and mission

Beginning

In 2006, Doclog SA launched a campaign to raise awareness on benefits of scanning paper. Original, printed Government Gazettes, licensed under Government Printer's Copyright Authority No. 11325, were digitized and published on the Internet.

Organic growth drove website traffic from 2,670 to 11,668 visits per week in 12 months. GG appears within Google's top 10 for search "gazette", "government gazette", and lists in Wikipedia's Government Gazette of South Africa. The first rollout in South Africa serves up to 5,962 visits, and 20,237 page impressions per day — Mon, 15, Aug, 2011.

Values

  • Awareness. An expanding knowingness that comes from among other activities: perceiving, understanding, appreciating and recognising.
  • Truth. Is precisely what it is.
  • Excellence. Excellence is a quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also used as a standard of performance as measured.

Mission

To provide you with the leading online resource for the Government Gazette of South Africa. To add to the environment by thinking green, replacing paper-based solutions with innovative, value added online services, that save you time and money.

  • Save time. Instead of ploughing through piles of paper, pinpoint information in seconds. Find listings, advertisements, notices and articles with a mini "Google-like" search. Download, print, and email PDF e-Gazettes without getting drowned in boxes, files and piles of paper.

  • Get ahead. And get an edge on government news with hourly and keyword-based alert services that monitor latest Gazettes for you, keeping you informed on relevant news. As it's published. Searching and reading through latest content, that could take hours, now just happens for you in minutes. Learn more.

  • Think green. Government Gazettes of South Africa are portable, easy to search, easy to share, and easy to store. Less paper. More trees.

It's unlikely paper would go out of fashion. The global movement is to reduce wastage where a similar and more efficient result can be achieved. Every time you download a Gazette instead of obtaining a hardcopy, you directly save or directly contribute to the life of 1+ tree (1 ream of paper ~6% tree). *

We look forward to providing you with ongoing value. Kaizen — Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better" refers to practices for incremental and continuous improvements. How can we improve?

Links

headline bulletin
I go for a 3rd attempt at reaching out to the FBI of the United States — Mark Berchowitz
2021-05-19
I'm double displaced. On arrival. 9th time only at SA. Property owner Petros bumps up our agreed rental fee by 50% during my check-in — Mark Berchowitz
2021-05-24
I'm displaced for the 8th time. Only at SA. Curiocity backpackers goes from low occupancy to fully booked on the day of my renewal at lowest season — Mark Berchowitz
2021-05-23
PayFast only bill R507 of R5,103 on GGSA subscriptions for today (9.9%). It's remaining "existing" service / billing contracts terminated — Mark Berchowitz
2021-05-16
South African Air Force (SAAF) in the process of being grounded — Mail & Guardian
2021-05-15
I create an online backup as a persistent public record of a nation's joint financial assault against one man. And his tiny legitimate business — Mark Berchowitz
2021-05-13
The nation teams up with government and financial institutions by slashing new business for GGSA by up to 76% within 1-month — Mark Berchowitz
2021-05-12
2Checkout cannot bill anyone that pays via Mastercard for 26 days now — since 29 April
2021-04-29
Visa network don't bill GGSA's existing paying customers' cards
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LexisNexis / Windeed withhold my money and tell me it takes up to 3 weeks to do an EFT since it's processed at their Durban branch — Mark Berchowitz
2021-05-04
Government withholds, suspends and / or discontinues gazette publications including the tender bulletin for 113 days now — since 01 Feb, 2021
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